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  1. Hugs and Shakes

    17 October 2006

    I’m having an interesting etiquette issue. I’m a woman working in a male-dominated environment, and basically I don’t think like a girl. I wear flat shoes and greet people with a firm handshake and drink pints; that’s who I am and I don’t believe my …

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  2. Introverts and Extroverts

    27 September 2006

    I’ve just come across this quote on James Shore’s Website:

    For an extrovert, socializing with strangers boosts their energy. For an introvert, socializing with strangers drains their energy

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  3. Compulsive Multitasker

    22 August 2006

    Do you know someone who seems innately unable to focus on one thing? They can only complete a task when there are twenty others vying for attention and even then they’re flitting between them like a lizard.

    You know the person I mean, you call them to ask if …

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  4. the trouble with being tall

    01 August 2006

    I’m tall. Not landmark-sized but well above the average for a woman (5’11’). My role model is Allison Janney who is taller than me again and interviews wonderfully on the subject of tall women. I’d like to outline the main points of having this personal feature.

    Good …

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  5. Recognising your Manager

    22 May 2006

    Someone who provides neither direction nor support for my project when I ask for it is not my manager – no matter where he apears on the org chart

    I saw this on The Daily WTF

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  6. Buying AJAX

    16 May 2006

    I just saw this comment in repsonse to AJAX – is it a design pattern

    My boss read an article about AJAX and said we should buy it. I smiled. She’s funny. She has lots of “For Dummies..” books.
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  7. star programmer

    20 March 2006
    Star programmer, n.
    A coder who you can’t write about without liberal use of the * key1

    1 liberally lifted from this hilarious post on one of my favorite blog sites.

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  8. Creating Storage

    19 March 2006

    We’ve recently moved into (another) new flat, and we’re just kind of settling in and unpacking. Its a rented place so we can’t do much with it – we’ve brought shelves and sidetables and stuff and that’s about all we can do. Our bedroom is cunningly …

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